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Finance minister P Chidambaram on Thursday raised tax deduction limit by Rs. 1 lakh for the first time home buyers to promote the housing sector.

Rich content from the Web, in your living room on your television set. Sounds good? Here's how. Gagandeep Singh Sapra writes.

The know-your-client form may look innocuous but this document can turn a mutual fund investor's life upside down. Kayezad E Adajania and Joel Rebello report.

How the Budget is made: From tallying numbers to meeting farmers and industrialists, from weighing public sentiments to charming investors, mandarins and politicos mix brainstorming and secret hurdles to bring you the annual event. How the Budget is made

We look at the new genre of specially designed devices that give you the best of both worlds - or hang in-between. Gagandeep Singh Sapra writes.

Indian consumers are influenced in their choice of beauty, fashion and luxury products and services by a burning ambition to succeed, to stand out and be appreciated for it. Anita Sharan writes.

India is in the midst of a crippling economic slowdown. So that means there will be fewer jobs this year, right? Wrong... Himani Chandna Gurtoo shed light on the job market in India.

Inform your bank, approach banking ombudsman, go to the appellate authority and, if all else fails, move court. Vivina Vishwanathan writes. Tips to avoid frauds

Choose insurance plans to first get a safety cover, then to save tax. Fix goals, assess risk appetite, make asset allocation and then scout for products. And, do this at your own pace and not under deadlines, reports Deepti Bhaskaran.

Gupta, a budding investor, and Suri, a techie with an idea, had a deal: a first for both. It was at the peak of this century’s worst economic crisis, but they were undeterred. Capital was the issue now. Yashwant Raj reports.

Not many are familiar with the Direct-to-Home Broadcasting Services (Standards of Quality of Service and Redressal of Grievances) Regulations, 2007, and the amendments to the regulations brought about in 2009, writes Pushpa Girimaji.

Founded when the iron ore commodity cycle was just hotting up in the middle of the last decade, Zamin Ferrous rode the wave. Yet, very little is known of the company or its founder Pramod Agarwal, who does not figure on the Forbes rich-list though he is perceived to be a billionaire. HT reports.

Manika Ralhan, 23, is a college student at Delhi University and an active mobile web user. A music buff, she keeps her iPod’s playlist updated via PC downloads. While watching Dabangg 2 at a theatre, she fell in love with raunchy ‘Fevicol’ number. “I surfed the mobile web and downloaded the song in five minutes,” she said. Himani Chandna Gurtoo reports.

Follow these valuable principles which have stood the test of time, and chances are that you will get your important investments right, writes Nidhi Sinha.

The new chairman of the Tata Group, Cyrus Mistry, will have his hands full in sustaining the global momentum that Ratan Tata infused. Gaurav Choudhury writes. The Tata story, seed to tree